Buckles

[poliphilo]

We Brits don't celebrate Thanksgiving, of course, but when I was a kid there was always a bit of a fuss about it and, come November, we generally got exposed to lessons and sermons and even TV programmes about the guys with buckles on their hats.

The buckles were really the most interesting thing about them. I drew pictures of pilgrims emphasizing the buckles. Why should anyone need a buckle up there? Did they tighten the buckles to stop their hats blowing away?

The teachers and preachers and programme makers rather took the line that these were upstanding, religious ENGLISH people and what they did by going to America was advance the manifest destiny of our imperial Anglo-Saxon race.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They were quite a colourful crew in fact.

I'm writing this in a London hotel room with a headache coming on. We're on holiday this weekend. Postings and comments may be little erratic...

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I hope your headache eases off soon and that you and Ailz have a happy holiday in London.

(I'm well into the novel and can't wait to get into it again now that I'm back home! I find that I am identifying very much with Hob! I want to make him a safe harbor, and I want him to go across the water. The imagery is magnificent.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've hd about ten hours sleep and feel a hole lot better.

Off to Kent this afternoon to visit my mother....